Korean Banks

The Washington Post report that it seems the attack on South Korea’s Nonghyup agricultural bank back in April was the work of North Korea. The evidence?

South Korean investigators said they determined that 10 servers used in the bank incident were the same ones used in previous cyberattack operations against South Korea, including one in 2009 and another in March, that they blamed on the North. Investigators say they determined, for instance, that a “command and control” server used in the 2009 operation was registered to a North Korean government agency operating in China.

This is interesting. Command and control servers are compromised computers that are used by bad guys to “run” other computers—zombies—that actually do the grunt work. There’s definitely a common thread between the 2009 and 2011 DDOS attacks, and plenty of circumstan